12+ Yrs Exp - Senior SQL DBA - Local to South Carolina only - Clemson, SC (Remote Job)

Scope of the project:

Various existing solutions plus new development in support of the State of South Carolina s

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

The Senior SQL DBA is responsible for working closely with both the project development team (scrum/sprint teams) and with the Clemson Oracle Database Administrators as well as IDMS DBAs to provide DBA support for numerous application and infrastructure databases.

Duties include:

• Advising development and product teams on best approaches for required data model extensions and/or changes.
• Hands-on SQLdevelopment and application support in ways that are consistent with Microsfot best practices.
• Collaboration with Clemson s Oracle and IDMS database administration team to maintain test, staging, production databases, and the development of operations procedures for database management.
• Developing and executing a data migration plan as needed to accommodate data transfers from existing data stores.
• Coordinating with outside entities, including vendors for other systems/services, providers, professional associations, and other State agencies.
• Analyze performance data, recommend courses of action, and implement best solutions to achieve optimum performance.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Clemson is seeking a Senior Microsoft SQL professional with the knowledge and experience along with comparable communication and interpersonal skills to enable success on this high-visibility project.

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance):

The Senior SQL DBA role has four major attributes: software development leadership, project management skills, people skills, and domain knowledge in enterprise class multi-tier web-based application development projects. Candidates must display excellence in all areas.

• Proven DBA experience in supporting enterprise applications in Linux environments, preferably windows and Linux.
• Experience with Data Guard
• Demonstrated success in supporting a development team implementing primarily web-based solutions using SQL as the database.
• Understanding of IT development and implementation projects.
• Understanding of database scalability and operations.
• Project planning experience, including effort estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation.
• Strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to give presentations to project management. Strong proficiency in English is required.
• Impeccable integrity. This project will have very high visibility and will impact significant expenditures of public funds.
• Candidates must be confident with their abilities to make correct decisions and the courage to speak out when necessary.
• Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations on a continuous basis.

Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance):

• Understanding of Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Healthcare industry experience and/or experience managing PHI/PII data
• Experience in data encryption and traffic encryption.
• Vendor management experience.
• Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experience
• Medicaid operations experience.
• Public sector experience is a plus.

Required Education:

Bachelor s degree in a technical, business, or related field. Master s degree is desirable.

Required Certifications:

None required. SQLtraining/certification from a recognized source is beneficial.